Cyril Falls

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Cyril Bentham Falls , CBE (born March 2, 1888 in Dublin , † April 23, 1971 in Walton-on-Thames ) was a British military historian, writer and journalist.

biography

Falls was a captain and staff officer in the 36th (Ulster) Division , Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers , during World War I. He received the Croix de guerre and was CBE . From 1923 to 1939 he was involved in the creation of the official British military history of the First World War and from 1939 he was the military correspondent for The Times (as previously Liddell Hart ). From 1946 to 1953 he was Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University (All Souls College), a post that Liddell Hart had also hoped for.

Known as an expert on World War I, he also wrote books for a wider audience, including Irish history in addition to World War I, a brief history of World War II, a biography of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and books on changes in warfare from the 19th to the 19th century into the 20th century, in which he lamented the barbarization of war in the 20th century.

He also wrote literary reviews and a novel, as well as a book on Rudyard Kipling .

Fonts

  • The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division , 1922, 1998
  • In the official History of the Great War , Macmillan 1923-1949 (editor James E. Edmonds ):
    • Military Operations - Egypt and Palestine , 2 volumes in 3, London 1928, 1930
    • Military Operations - Macedonia , 2 volumes, London 1933, 1935
    • Military Operations - France and Belgium, 1917: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras , Volume 1, London 1940
  • War Books: a critical guide , London: P. Davies 1930
  • Marshal Foch , London, Glasgow: Blackie and Son 1939
  • The Nature of Modern Warfare , Oxford UP 1941 (from his Lee Knowles Lectures in Cambridge 1941)
  • Ordeal by Battle , Oxford UP 1943
  • The Second World War: a short history , London: Methuen 1948, 3rd edition 1950
  • Elizabeth's Irish Wars , London: Methuen 1950
  • A Hundred Years of War , London: Duckworth 1953, 1961
  • The Great War 1914–1918 , London: Gerald Duckworth 1953, New York: Putnam 1959
  • The Art of War: from the Age of Napoleon to the Present Day , Oxford University Press 1961
  • Armageddon, 1918: The Final Palestinian Campaign of World War I , Philadelphia: Lippincott 1964
  • Caporetto 1917 , Philadelphia: Lippincott 1966
  • Mountjoy, Elizabethan general , London 1955
  • Publisher Great Military Battles , MacMillan 1964, 1971
    • German translation: Great land battles , Ariel Verlag 1964
  • The Birth of Ulster , London: Methuen 1936, 1973
  • War books: an annotated bibliography of books about the Great War , London: Greenhill Books, California, Presidio Press 1989 (edited by RJ Wyatt)
  • Rudyard Kipling: a critical study, Nordwood 1976, Archives

literature

  • Lew Strachan: The real war, Liddell Hart, Crutwell and Falls , in: Brian Bond (editor): The first world war and british military history , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1991
  • Michael Howard: Entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Bassford: Clausewitz in English. Clausewitz in Britain and America 1815-1945 , Oxford University Press 1994, p. 145
personal data
SURNAME If, Cyril
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falls, Cyril Bentham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1971
Place of death Walton-on-Thames